Identification Is the Key

ALCOHOLICS Anonymous is a fellowship of people whose only membership requirement is a desire to stop drinking and whose sole purpose is to stay sober and to carry this message to alcoholics. Nothing is said in our Big Book, our Traditions, our Steps, or any of our literature about taking, smoking, or shooting up. In fact, the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions and the pamphlet "Problems Other than Alcohol" stress the fact that AA cannot be all things to all people and survive as a group. If we do not survive as a group, we cannot survive as individuals. That explicitly tells us who we are and what we can and cannot do as an AA group. What we can (and should) do as individuals is another matter.